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Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

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Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide

Overview of this book

Sakai is a Collaboration and Learning environment that provides the means to manage users, courses, instructors, and facilities, as well as a spectrum of tools including assessment, grading, and messaging. Sakai is loaded with many handy features and tools, which make it uniquely the Learning system of the present as well as the future.This book is the officially endorsed Sakai guide and is an update to the previous book, Sakai Courseware Management: The Official Guide. From setting up and running Sakai for the first time to creatively using its tools and features, this book delivers everything you need to know.Written by Alan Berg, a Sakai fellow and former Quality Assurance Director of the Sakai Foundation and Ian Dolphin the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation with significant contributions from the Sakai community, Sakai CLE Courseware Management: The Official Guide is a comprehensive study of how Sakai CLE should be used, managed, and maintained, with real world examples and practical explanations.The book opens with an overview of Sakai, its history and how to set up a demonstration version. Next, the underlying structures and tools are described. In using Sakai for Teaching and Collaboration, there is a detailed discussion of how to structure online courses for teaching and collaboration between groups of students, from creating course sites to understanding their use in different organizations around the world.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
Sakai CLE Courseware Management
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Terminology
Index

Sakai OAE


As the new system became less of an experiment by one school and more of a community effort, there were discussions both about how best to coordinate the work of the project and where it might fit with the current Sakai CLE. As the system developed, it became clear that what was being developed was not the next generation of a Collaboration and Learning Environment (or, for that matter, an LMS), but a new product category altogether. A new term was created: Open Academic Environment, or Sakai OAE. This term is inspired in part by an article written by Brigham Young University VP of Academic Technology in EDUCAUSE Quarterly, in which he called for the creation of an Open Learning Environment (OLN).

The OLN has three key features:

  • It is malleable

  • It leverages technologies that did not exist when the LMS was born in the late 1990s

  • It strikes a manageable balance between imperatives of institutional networks and the promise of the cloud

There are two important differences between Mott's...